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    • A group of about 35 people in orange safety vests pose in front of a large cylindrical silver structure.
      Coating Chamber Group Photo
    • A group of about 30 people wearing orange safety vests stand in front of a cylindrical white container.
      Group Photo with Mirror
    • A convoy of 4 transport vehicles, one carrying the large mirror container, travel along a dirt road
      Mirror Transport
    • Rubin Observatory facility with unfinished dome made of teal scaffolding
      Rubin Observatory with Dome Scaffolding
    • A teal storage shed with an open front is in the foreground, and Rubin Observatory is in the background
      Mirror Storage Shed
    • Rubin Observatory facility with unfinished dome against a purple and orange sky and silhouettes of mountain ridges in the distance.
      Rubin at twilight
    • The mirror container barely clears the sides of the tunnel. Several workers walk alongside the container.
      Mirror in the Tunnel
    • Workers help guide a truck transporting the main mirror through the Puclaro tunnel, with very little clearance to spare.
      Primary Mirror goes through the Tunnel
    • a worker straddles the midline of the road inside of the tunnel, ready to give signals to the driver as the truck enters the tunnel.
      M1M3 Puclaro Tunnel passage
    • the mirror container extends across the entire roadway. Cars pass by temporarily driving off the road.
      Night transport
    • a large crane used to lift the mirror is positioned alongside the ship
      BBC Manitoba
    • The primary mirror is packaged in a white octagonal container between several interconnected truck trailers
      Primary mirror transport
    • The cylindrical mirror with a protective blue cover sits below an array of smaller circular suction cups that will be used to lift it.
      Primary Mirror Below Lifting Fixture
    • the interior curvature has a steeper angle and consists of less than half of the diameter of the entire mirror
      Mirror Polishing
    • a worker uses a magnifying headset to work on exposed circuitry of the filter changer
      Working on the autochanger
    • Rubin Observatory and the Auxiliary Telescope appear side by side on their two small summits.
      Rubin Observatory in Blue Twilight
    • many mechanically controlled round suction cups cover the mirror surface
      suction cup closeup
    • the mirror, held by suction cups, is being lowered into its shipping container
      suction lift
    • A large turquoise structure sits atop an orange transport truck while several men in safety vests look on
      Primary Mirror Cell in Tucson
    • About 200 people in teal LSST t shirts pose on a lawn near in front of a swimming pool.
      2018 LSST group photo
    • A golden cloudy sky dominates the scene behind the dark dome support beams of Rubin Observatory.
      Rubin Observatory Above the Clouds
    • A top down view looking at the incomplete LSST Camera focal plane. At the center is a tiled metal frame that looks like a 4 by 4 checkerboard, with empty squares. The lines making up the checkered pattern are a light copper color and run diagonally from upper left to lower right, and from lower left to upper right. The checkered pattern is inside a metal cylinder structure with various metal pipes around the outside. All of the metal is extremely clean and shiny.
      Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera Focal Plane Build
    • 4 cameras with giant lenses point toward rafts of CCD chips suspended above
      Video cameras
    • the gantry device is a tower like robotic structure suspended over an empty grid within the cryostat
      Installing rafts in the grid
    • Workers prepare the circular track and mounting points in the concrete upper surface of the telescope pier
      Telescope pier construction
    • A person stands inside the yellow claw-shaped lifting fixture. The fixture is about 2.5 meters high by 5 meters long.
      Camera Lifting Fixture
    • The service building is attached to an open portion of the telescope building. A ring-shaped pier for the telescope mount is atop the open structure.
      NE view from Cerro Pachón
    • Overhead view of the Auxtel dome and a smaller nearby instrument in a small dome on a tripod.
      Drone view
    • View of the LSST facility from the auxiliary telescope summit, showing a close up of the 30 meter DIMM tower and dome enclosure.
      DIMM Tower
    • A golden sun sets in a clear sky beyond the observatory summit.
      Rubin Observatory at Sunset
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